IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wellston
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1959TN141023
  • User Pedon ID: 1959TN141023
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1959TN141023
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A5030
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 41719
  • Print Date: 1/30/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Location In Web Soil Survey
  • AOI is roughly a square mile and pedon is marked in the center.
  • Location in SoilWeb
  • Location in Google Maps
  • Std. Latitude: 36.1727791
  • Std. Longitude: -85.2888870
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Two miles northwest of Monterey on Livingston Highway. 1/4 mile southeast of Woodcliff Church. 110 yards south of Highway, Neal farm.
  • State: Tennessee
  • County: TN141—Putnam
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TN141—Putnam County, Tennessee

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: G. T. Jackson
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 23
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wellston
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 12/1/1959
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: ridge
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/1/1959 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: AEW-6N-51
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    QUAL

    QUFA

    QUVE

    Quercus alba

    Quercus falcata

    Quercus velutina

    white oak

    southern red oak

    black oak

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    Setting and Climate
    Slope Slope Length USLE Upslope Length Elev. Corr. Elev Aspect MAP REAP FFD MAAT MSAT MWAT MAST MSST MWST MFFP PE Index Climate Station ID Climate Station Name Climate Station Type
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    4

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    A1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 21.0 fine roots; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A38021
    Oe—1 to 0 centimeters (0.4 to 0.0 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A38020. Partly decomposed broadleaf litter and twigs.
    Oi—1 to 1 centimeters (0.4 to 0.4 inches); loose; fragments. Lab sample # 40A38019. Undecomposed broadleaf litter; principally oak.
    A2—5 to 18 centimeters (2.0 to 7.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; very friable; 21.0 roots; 21.0 pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A38022
    B1—18 to 30 centimeters (7.1 to 11.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 21.0 roots; 30 percent clay films; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A38023. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1169692; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1169692
    B21—30 to 46 centimeters (11.8 to 18.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 21.0 fine roots; 30 percent clay films; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A38024. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1169693; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1169693
    B22—46 to 63 centimeters (18.1 to 24.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; 3 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) medium distinct mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 roots; 30 percent clay films; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A38025. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1169694; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1169694
    B3—63 to 74 centimeters (24.8 to 29.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; 3 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) medium distinct and 3 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) medium distinct mottles; strong fine angular blocky structure; firm; clay films; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A38026. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1169695; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1169695
    C1—74 to 99 centimeters (29.1 to 39.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay; 3 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) medium distinct and 3 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) medium distinct mottles; moderate medium angular blocky, and coarse platy structure; firm; clay films; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A38027. few shale fragments.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1169696; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1169696
    C2—99 to 114 centimeters (39.0 to 44.9 inches); light gray (2.5Y 7/2) silty clay; 3 percent yellow (10YR 7/6) coarse prominent and 3 percent red (2.5YR 4/8) coarse prominent mottles; moderate coarse platy parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; fragments. Lab sample # 40A38028. common shale fragments; structure probably inherited from level bedded shale.
    R—114 to 0 centimeters (44.9 to 0.0 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A38029